"We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact."

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To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time. Every memory, no matter how remote its subject, takes place 'Now,' at the moment it's called to the mind. The more something is recalled, the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience. Because every memory is a re-creation, not a playback.

— David Mazzucchelli